Tarmac Meditations-First Step

Whenever I stop running everyday for whatever reason I find it difficult to start up again. My bent is to make it into some grand scheme in need of complex strategies and tactics. My friend Bob told me something that made sense…Get your ass out and run!  In the end, that’s the deal. Ran today for an hour. Come tomorrow I will get up and do it again( Jackson Browne reference). I have the idea to think about base building, just running, for the next two months and let my body readjust to all the surgeries, both medical and age related…meaning getting older and slower means re-adjusting what one can do and how fast one can get to a certain point. Come the new year, if the running has happened, when the running happens, I will pick an event to aim for, maybe Napa, maybe Austin maybe New Zealand, and then in celebration I will eat ice cream and put an end to the darkness and chaos in my life that ice cream’s absence brings. (paraphrasing Don Kardong)